... including:here/there hence/thence now/then thusIn modern English the pairs of demonstratives (i.e. this/that, these/those) express the notion of being either closer to, or further from the writer/speaker. ... The Romans locatedhistorical events in relation to the founding of their city in 7 53 BC. They gaveyears with the suffix AUC, which to them meant ab urbe condita “from the city’sfounding”, but ... maqabir. The confusion led to the dropping of the acute accent from the word macabre, and to the spellingmacaber found occasionally in American English. (See further under -re/-er.) The danse...